Turn it over.

Your answer to Mikea seems clear to me. Might be that misconception helps define why what you are doing is risky. If others don't understand it - then taking an action at the very least risks your reputation - if others do understand - then you are doing what is expected and even if you fail others will write it off as 'the best that could have been done.'

I think we can also sense the level of originality by the level of
misconception it engenders.

I agree with Henie - What are you saying?
Are you saying that we perceive "something" as a risk because we do not yet have a clear understanding of that 'something? Or better still - that Risks are unknown outcomes and therefore we suffer misconceptions in our attempts to control through understanding? - Maybe thats it?


This was fun - Thanks

I think I wasn't very clear...trying to say this: that the risk taken
places us outside the comfortable boundaries of the collective

attitudes. The collective then is likely to misunderstand that which

is no longer within it's container. Often, when I've taken risks in

my life I have one eye looking for support of the choice, only to find

the opposite. Is that clearer?

So, are you saying that because it was a misconception, it became a risk?

Here I go, round and round in thought about this...very interesting as always! Thank you! :~)

No, what I'm saying, or trying to, is that risk takes one outside the
bounds of collective acceptability, thereby generating the

misconception...